A Day in the Life of a Quarantiner

Google is telling me that quarantiner isn't a word. Quarantinee isn't either apparently. Quarantinites? Quarantinese? Nope and nope. Not sure what to call us....

Anyway, here is how our days have been rolling out:

❇ If it's been a good night, wake up about 5:30. If it's not been as good, it's much, much earlier.

❇ Lounge around. Call home. Check messages. Try to go back to sleep. Etc.

❇ Say some prayers. Begin study.

❇ 7:00ish breakfast arrives. Try to get used to veggies like this for breakfast.

❇ Finish study. Think about showering.

❇ Look out the window. Watch students at the nearby school do tai chi.

❇ Think a bit more about showering. I have to wash more underwear if I change out of them.

❇ Read very nice notes our YW sent with the girls to have something to open each day. Makes me cry.

❇ Temperature check.

❇ Yoga routine. (life saver) Exercise has to wait until after temperature checks so I'm not overheated.

❇ Take a shower.

❇ Eat a snack.

❇ Index a batch. This is what I envisioned I'd be doing a lot of during quarantine. But the website has not been cooperating very well with me. I've been lucky to get in a single batch a day. 😔

❇ Get a nose or throat swab.

❇ Eat another snack. This was a normal occurrence prior to the news of adding 11 more days and Tom and I are starting to ration snacks to make sure there is enough for the girls throughout.

❇ Read WeChat messages from our chatty Branch group.

❇ Duo Lingo for Chinese practice. Doesn't seem to be helping much!

❇ Assign out jobs for the day: fold the previous day's laundry, make beds, sweep up crumbs, organize areas, put the trash out the door, Clorox wipe the bathroom, wash more clothes...

❇ Ask what time it is. It's usually several HOURS earlier to the time we all think it is.

❇ 11:30 lunch arrives. A fruit usually comes with each lunch. Highlight of the day!

❇ Do something with our assigned person (no screens!). (These rotate each day. Yesterday, Tom and I had our executive council in the bathroom---Tessa hates whispering and that was our only choice!) Today I had time with Greta. We played Jaipur.

❇ Break up some squabbles.

❇ Color in a coloring book + listen to conference talks

❇ Look out the window.

❇ Temperature check #2

❇ Write in journal.

❇ Wish to eat a snack. (see above)

❇ Zentangle + podcast

❇ Nap.

❇ Wait for dinner. Break up some squabbles.

❇ Watch how to make Chocolate Banana Croissants--a Korean street food with Tessa.

❇ 5:00 dinner arrives.

❇ Color some more.

❇ Another yoga routine.

❇ Attempt some Chinese. A "Thank you" to hang on our door.

❇ Write a blog post.

Call it a day! More work tomorrow!

It's a pretty plush life, really!

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